16,492
16K
1946
1946
by
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
texts
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"The appearance of this facsimile reprint is the culmination of an initial suggestion from Helen G. McClelland, Director of Nursing of the Philadelphia Hospital, plus the present scarcity of the first edition, which appeared in London over the harrison imprint in 1859. The first available American edition followed in 1860 ove the imprint of D. Appleton and Company. This facsimile has been reproduced from the copy in the Rare Book Room of the Library of Congress."--"The story of...
Topics: Nursing, Caregivers
3,155
3.2K
1913
1913
by
Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir, 1857-1919
texts
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Includes portraits at various ages
Topics: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Nurses
3,029
3.0K
1859
1859
by
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
texts
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"The following notes are by no means intended as a rule of thought by which nurses can teach themselves to nurse, still less as a manual to teach nurses to nurse. They are meant simply to give hints for thought to women who have personal charge of the health of others. ... Every day sanitary knowledge, or the knowledge of nursing, or in other words, of how to put the constitution in such a state as that it will have no disease, or that it can recover from disease, takes a higher place. It...
Topics: Nursing, Caregivers
5,618
5.6K
1938
1938
by
Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932
texts
eye 5,618
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comment 0
Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection
Topic: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
1,543
1.5K
1937
1937
by
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910; Sen, Priyaranjan
texts
eye 1,543
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Publisher and printer from title page verso
Topic: Socioeconomic Factors
5,381
5.4K
texts
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"Reprinted from the Report of the Royal Commission appointed to enquire into the Regulations affecting the Sanitary State of the Army."
Topics: Mortality, Military Medicine, Military Personnel
2,749
2.7K
1835
1835
by
Quetelet, Adolphe, 1796-1874
texts
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Republished in 1869 under title: Physique sociale
Topics: Social history, Vital Statistics, Demography
3,151
3.2K
1913
1913
by
Matheson, Annie, 1853-
texts
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Approximate date based on reference made in the preface (p. viii) to Edward Cook's biography of Nightingale, which "was about to be written" and which was published in 1913
Topics: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Evatt, George Joseph Hamilton, b. 1843, Nurses
2,484
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1951
1951
by
Williams, Harley, 1901-
texts
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The healing touch -- Book one: Three royal physicians: Sir William Knighton, bart.; Sir James Clark, bart.; Sir William Jenner, bart. -- Book two: Two prophets: Sir Edwin Chadwick; Thomas Southwood Smith -- Book three: Florence Nightingale -- Book four: Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard -- Bok five: A new world of medicine -- References
Topics: History of Medicine, Physicians, Nurses
3,526
3.5K
1931
1931
by
Willis, Irene Cooper
texts
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"First published in Great Britain in 1931"--Title page verso
Topics: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Nurses
1,993
2.0K
1916
1916
by
Tooley, Sarah A. Southall
texts
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Date established from printer's code at foot of final page: "10-1-16"
Topic: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
1,510
1.5K
1860
1860
by
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
texts
eye 1,510
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comment 0
"The following notes are by no means intended as a rule of thought by which nurses can teach themselves to nurse, still less as a manual to teach nurses to nurse. They are meant simply to give hints for thought to women who have personal charge of the health of others. ... Every day sanitary knowledge, or the knowledge of nursing, or in other words, of how to put the constitution in such a state as that it will have no disease, or that it can recover from disease, takes a higher place. It...
Topics: Nursing, Caregivers
1,496
1.5K
1913
1913
by
Maxwell, Herbert, Sir, 1845-1937
texts
eye 1,496
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Frontispiece portraits of the earl
Topic: Clarendon, George William Frederick Villiers, Earl of, 1800-1870
11,734
12K
1951
1951
by
Woodham Smith, Cecil, 1896-1977
texts
eye 11,734
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comment 0
Bibliography: p. 367-372
Topic: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
2,097
2.1K
1918
1918
by
Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932
texts
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"Some opinions on 'Eminent Victorians'"--[2] p. at end
Topics: Manning, Henry Edward, 1808-1892, Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Arnold, Thomas, 1795-1842,...
3,843
3.8K
1946
1946
by
Nolan, Jeannette Covert, 1896-1974
texts
eye 3,843
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comment 0
Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection
Topics: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Nurses
1,965
2.0K
1886
1886
by
Bolton, Sarah Knowles, 1841-1916
texts
eye 1,965
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comment 0
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Helen Hunt Jackson -- Lucretia Mott -- Mary A. Livermore -- Margaret Fuller Ossoli -- Maria Mitchell -- Louisa M. Alcott -- Mary Lyon -- Harriet G. Hosmer -- Madame de Staël -- Rosa Bonheur -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- "George Eliot" -- Elizabeth Fry -- Elizabeth Thompson Butler -- Florence Nightingale -- Lady Brassey -- Baroness Burdett-Coutts -- Jean Ingelow
Topic: Women
1,269
1.3K
1872
1872
by
Jones, J., Miss; Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910; Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893
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Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection
Topics: Jones, Agnes Elizabeth, 1832-1868, Nursing, Nurses, Military Nursing
2,125
2.1K
1911
1911
by
Pollard, Eliza F., d. 1911
texts
eye 2,125
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comment 0
Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection
Topics: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Nurses, History of Nursing
2,567
2.6K
1925
1925
by
Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir, 1857-1919; Nash, Rosalind Nightingale
texts
eye 2,567
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On spine: New edition revised
Topic: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
1,961
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1858
1858
by
Clarke, Mary Cowden, 1809-1898
texts
eye 1,961
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Sappho -- Lucretia -- Aspasia -- Cleopatra -- St. Cecilia -- Heloise -- Laura -- Valentine de Milan -- Joan D'Arc -- Margaret of Anjou -- Isabella of Castile -- Lady Jane Grey -- Pocahontas -- La Vallière -- Maria Theresa -- Catherine II -- Florence Nightingale
Topics: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Women
844
844
1860
1860
by
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
texts
eye 844
favorite 0
comment 0
"The following notes are by no means intended as a rule of thought by which nurses can teach themselves to nurse, still less as a manual to teach nurses to nurse. They are meant simply to give hints for thought to women who have personal charge of the health of others. ... Every day sanitary knowledge, or the knowledge of nursing, or in other words, of how to put the constitution in such a state as that it will have no disease, or that it can recover from disease, takes a higher place. It...
Topics: Nursing, Caregivers
1,031
1.0K
1865
1865
by
Liverpool. Royal Infirmary. Training School and Home for Nurses; Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
texts
eye 1,031
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Binding: Publisher's blue cloth over pasteboards, stamped in blind and gold
Topics: Liverpool Royal Infirmary. Liverpool Training School and Home for Nursing, Nursing
1,116
1.1K
1888
1888
by
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
texts
eye 1,116
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"The following notes are by no means intended as a rule of thought by which nurses can teach themselves to nurse, still less as a manual to teach nurses to nurse. They are meant simply to give hints for thought to women who have personal charge of the health of others. ... Every day sanitary knowledge, or the knowledge of nursing, or in other words, of how to put the constitution in such a state as that it will have no disease, or that it can recover from disease, takes a higher place. It...
Topics: Nursing, Caregivers
3,975
4.0K
1943
1943
by
Orvieto, Laura
texts
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"Ich bin deine Magd und Du bist mein Herr"
Topics: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Nurse
1,658
1.7K
texts
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Engraved portraits: Rosa Bonheur -- Florence Nightingale -- Lydia H. Sigourney -- Eugenie, Empress of the french -- Margaret Fuller Ossoll -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Mrs. Emma Willard -- Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Lucretia Mott -- Victoria, Queen of England -- Adelaide Ristori -- Anna E. Dickinson -- Mrs. C.S Lozier, M.D. -- Harriet G. Hosmer
Topic: Women
2,066
2.1K
1895
1895
by
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
texts
eye 2,066
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comment 0
1,235
1.2K
1920
1920
by
Forbush, Gabrielle Elliot
texts
eye 1,235
favorite 0
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Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection
Topic: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
688
688
1864
1864
by
Edge, Frederick Milnes
texts
eye 688
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comment 0
Published anonymously. Attributed to Frederick Milnes Edge. Cf. BLC, Allisbone (suppl.)
Topics: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, United States Sanitary Commission
1,302
1.3K
1916
1916
by
Abbott, Maude E. (Maude Elizabeth), 1869-1940
texts
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"Reprinted from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, September 14th, 21st and 28th, 1916"
Topics: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Nurses
1,748
1.7K
1958
1958
by
University of California, Los Angeles. Biomedical Library; Belt, Elmer, 1893-1980; Steinitz, Kate Traumann, 1889-1975
texts
eye 1,748
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comment 0
"Printed by Grant Dahlstrom: The Castle Press, Pasadena, California."
Topics: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Nursing
1,552
1.6K
texts
eye 1,552
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Chapter seven, detached from: Portraits of celebrated women, with brief biographies, edited by Rev. D.W. Clark. Title page printed in colors to resemble illuminated manuscript. Portrait of Florence Nightingale on plate. Rebound
Topic: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
1,969
2.0K
1929
1929
by
Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman, d. 1936
texts
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Frontispiece portrait of Nightingale
Topics: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Nurses, Crimean War, 1853-1856
2,237
2.2K
1913
1913
by
Maxwell, Herbert, Sir, 1845-1937
texts
eye 2,237
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Frontispiece portraits of the earl
Topic: Clarendon, George William Frederick Villiers, Earl of, 1800-1870
1,310
1.3K
1855
1855
by
Osborne, Sidney Godolphin, Lord, 1808-1889
texts
eye 1,310
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Lithographs (some color): Burial ground at Scutari -- Scene at the battle field -- First Russian prisoners (under English guard) -- First Russian prisoners (under French guard) -- Turkish ladies
Topic: Hospitals
1,002
1.0K
texts
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"For private distribution."
647
647
1857
1857
by
Cary, Alice Butler
texts
eye 647
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In verse
Topic: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
2,430
2.4K
1905
1905
by
Tooley, Sarah A. Southall
texts
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Binding: Publisher's blue cloth over boards, stamped in blind and gold; uncut
Topics: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Nurses
769
769
1909
1909
by
Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe, 1850-1943
texts
eye 769
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Frontispiece portrait (figurine of Nightingale)
Topics: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Nurses
1,000
1,000
1862
1862
by
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
texts
eye 1,000
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"Read at the London meeting of the 'Congrès de bienfaisance,' June, 1862."
Topics: Herbert of Lea, Sidney Herbert, Baron, 1810-1861, Great Britain. Army
1,802
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1945
1945
by
Barth, Ramona Jeanette Sawyer, 1911-
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"First edition."
Topic: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
1,349
1.3K
1946
1946
by
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
texts
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"A facsimile of the first edition published in 1860 by D. Appleton and Co., New York."
Topics: Nursing, Caregivers
1,233
1.2K
1858
1858
by
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
texts
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Five hundred copies, not issued to the public, were printed at Florence Nightingale's expense. Cf. Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection (1958), p.11
Topics: Nursing, Hospitals, Military
2,966
3.0K
1948
1948
by
McAllister, Joseph B. (Joseph Bernard), 1906-
texts
eye 2,966
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In full issue of: R.N. (May, 1948)
Topics: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Nursing
956
956
1865
1865
by
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910; National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain). Meeting (1864 : York, Eng.)
texts
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Caption title
Topics: Aboriginal Australians, Indigenous peoples, Anthropology, Cultural
1,180
1.2K
1883
1883
by
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
texts
eye 1,180
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"The following notes are by no means intended as a rule of thought by which nurses can teach themselves to nurse, still less as a manual to teach nurses to nurse. They are meant simply to give hints for thought to women who have personal charge of the health of others. ... Every day sanitary knowledge, or the knowledge of nursing, or in other words, of how to put the constitution in such a state as that it will have no disease, or that it can recover from disease, takes a higher place. It...
Topics: Nursing, Caregivers
1,497
1.5K
1913
1913
by
Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir, 1857-1919
texts
eye 1,497
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Includes portraits at various ages
Topics: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Nurses
844
844
1937
1937
by
Newman, George, Sir, 1870-1948; International Council of Nurses. Congress (1937 : London, Eng.)
texts
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Cover title
Topics: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Nurses
2,211
2.2K
1868
1868
by
Parton, James, 1822-1891
texts
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Engraved portraits: Rosa Bonheur -- Florence Nightingale -- Lydia H. Sigourney -- Eugenie, Empress of the french -- Margaret Fuller Ossoll -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Mrs. Emma Willard -- Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Lucretia Mott -- Victoria, Queen of England -- Adelaide Ristori -- Anna E. Dickinson -- Mrs. C.S Lozier, M.D. -- Harriet G. Hosmer
Topic: Women
2,585
2.6K
1928
1928
by
Hallock, Grace T. (Grace Taber), b. 1893; Turner, C. E. (Clair Elsmere), 1890-1974; Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
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Series at head of title
Topic: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
432
432
1945
1945
by
Belt, Elmer, 1893-1980
texts
eye 432
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Title from deed of gift
Topics: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Nurses, History of Nursing
1,386
1.4K
1926
1926
by
Sears, Joseph Hamblen, 1865-1946
texts
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Introduction signed: Hamblen Sears
Topic: Women
1,988
2.0K
1866
1866
by
Powers, Elvira J
texts
eye 1,988
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Frontispiece depicts Jefferson General Hospital, Jeffersonville, Indiana
Topics: Jefferson General Hospital (Jeffersonville, Ind.), Nurses
1,062
1.1K
1862
1862
by
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910; Daremberg, Charles, 1817-1872
texts
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Translated from English
Topics: Nursing Care, Nursing
1,433
1.4K
1883
1883
by
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
texts
eye 1,433
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comment 0
"The following notes are by no means intended as a rule of thought by which nurses can teach themselves to nurse, still less as a manual to teach nurses to nurse. They are meant simply to give hints for thought to women who have personal charge of the health of others. ... Every day sanitary knowledge, or the knowledge of nursing, or in other words, of how to put the constitution in such a state as that it will have no disease, or that it can recover from disease, takes a higher place. It...
Topics: Nursing, Caregivers
1,884
1.9K
1866
1866
by
Selborne, Roundell Palmer, Earl of, 1812-1895
texts
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comment 0
Autograph of F. Nightingale
Topic: Hymns, English
1,267
1.3K
1890
1890
by
Alldridge, Lizzie
texts
eye 1,267
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Frontispiece with portraits of four subjects
Topics: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Havergal, Frances Ridley, 1836-1879, Marsh, Catherine, L. N. R.,...
841
841
1923
1923
by
Reid, Edith Gittings, 1863-
texts
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"First published September, 1922"--Title page verso
Topics: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Nurses
1,183
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1863
1863
by
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910; Great Britain. Colonial Office
texts
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Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection
Topics: Hospitals, Schools, Hospitals
897
897
texts
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Two poems; at head of titles are two woodcut vignettes
Topics: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Crimean War, 1853-1856
1,441
1.4K
1946
1946
by
Muir, Dorothy Erskine
texts
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Source of approximate date unknown. "Book Production War Economy Standards" logo on title page verso suggests book may have been published as late as 1948 or 1949
Topics: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Nurses
951
951
1874
1874
by
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910; National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain)
texts
eye 951
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Imprint on cover: "London: Harrison and Sons, 59, Pall Mall, and 1, St. James's Street, Booksellers to the Queen and H.R.H., the Prince of Wales, 1874"
Topic: Public Health
982
982
1864
1864
by
Madden, John Patrick Auguste, 1808-1889; Madden, John Patrick Auguste, 1808-1889. Toulon, port de guerre; Tenerife Expedition (1856)
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eye 982
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Page number 29-30 omitted
Topics: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882, Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910, Scientific expeditions, Nursing,...
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